An Ohio fire department has suspended one of its volunteer firefighters for a racist Facebook post suggesting he’d prefer to save a dog in an emergency than a black person. Tyler Roysdon, a volunteer for Franklin Township, wrote that if he had to choose between saving a dog or a black man from a burning … Read more
A Florida police officer who skyrocketed to internet fame this week for being one of the “hot cops” working during Hurricane Irma has been accused of writing anti-Semitic Facebook posts. Gainesville Police Officer Michael Hamill reportedly made offensive jokes about Jews and wrote that “stupid people” should be put in an oven and dealt with … Read more
Columbus officials are investigating a police officer’s conduct during a traffic stop in August and whether it violated departmental policy — including whether it constituted racial profiling. Body camera footage The Dispatch obtained via an Open Records Act request shows officer Keith Dowd, a white, recently hired 48-year-old veteran officer, unleash a series of insults … Read more
A group of white teens attacked an 8-year-old biracial boy and hanged him by a noose, his family says, and police in Claremont, NH are refusing to release information in the case. The Root’s Angela Helm reported on Sunday that an 8-year-old biracial boy was hanged by a rope around his neck by other juveniles … Read more
Six black Philadelphia Police Department narcotics officers say their two white supervisors are racist and corrupt, according to two black civic leaders and an attorney for the officers. Rochelle Bilal, Guardian Civic League president, said at a news conference at the organization’s Girard Avenue headquarters that the two narcotics supervisors — Chief Inspector Anthony Boyle … Read more
According to the new, reflexively defensive school of thought, it is not fair to call people racist. The proponents of this school of thought say that racist people believe others are inferior, and there is no way of knowing what the angry Caucasians in Charlottesville, Va., toting tiki torches, or people like Donald Trump, actually … Read more
A lieutenant from a police department in Georgia is under investigation after a dashcam video obtained by Channel 2 Action News appears to show the officer telling a driver during a DUI stop, “Remember, we only kill black people.” Lt. Greg Abbott of the Cobb County Police Department reportedly asked the driver to grab her … Read more
A Texas television station investigating white supremacist hate in their region was startled to discover a website linked to the newly-appointed Colbert, Oklahoma police chief. It started with all of the attention the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hate Map” received following the violence in Charlottesville, VA. Reporter Rachel Knapp of KXII noticed a single hategroup … Read more
An anonymous source came forward with this damning video of the Kansas City Missouri Police Department colluding directly with the far-right extremist 3%er militia. (See our previous post on this, linked in the comments). This is undeniable proof that these groups are working together and share a similar agenda. All reasonable people should be outraged … Read more
A video produced by the NYPD sergeants union claiming that police officers are victims of “blue racism” is being picked apart online, with critics calling the segment both offensive and laughable. “You don’t understand racism and that’s a pretty big problem,” Alexandra Halaby tweeted to the Sergeants Benevolent Association after seeing the 4-minute video online. … Read more
The NYPD has opened an investigation into a YouTube video that claims a “racist cop” busted up a Manhattan street cookout — dumping a large jug of water over an open top grill mid-barbecue to the dismay of hungry gatherers, police said. The one-minute video titled, “Racist cop pours water on cookout grill and denies … Read more
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office found itself in the hot waters of viraily on Monday evening after their official Twitter account retweeted a link to a press conference being held by noted white nationalist Richard Spencer. Spencer, who is mostly famous for being punched in the face by multiple anti-fascists, held the press conference with … Read more